Belt-support for garments.



I. G. ISAACS & A. H. LIKES. BELT SUPPORT FOR GARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV 5, 1910.

1,035,013. Patented Aug. 6,1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC GOBLENS ISAACS AND ALBERT H. LIKES, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

BELT-SUPPORT FOR GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

Application filed November 5, 1910. Serial No. 590,797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ISAAC CoBLnNs ISAACS and ALBERT I-I. LIKES, citizens of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the 5 State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Supports for Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved con- 10' struction of belt support for garments and has particular reference to a device for engaging the tongue of a belt buckle to prevent the latter from vertical movement while on the person.

The invention consists in providing the eye-member of a garment fastener with a device which may be moved to one position where it may project beyond the edge of the overlapping flap of the garment placket to be engaged by the buckle tongue, or, which may be moved to another position to be concealed when a belt is not worn.

The invention further consists in the novel construction of a bail pivotally attached to the eye member of the garment fastener in the manner hereinafter described.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein,

Figure 1, shows the front portion of a garment such as a pair of trousers, with the fastener members attached to the respective flaps or plackets thereof and also shows the belt engaging device carried by the eyemember of the fastener. Fig. 2, illustrates another front view of the lapped trousers with a belt about the same and shows the improved device engaging the tongue of the belt buckle. Fig. 3, is a top edge View of the same, and Fig. 1, is a perspective of the eye-member of the fastener and the movable buckle-engaging device attached thereto.

In the drawing the numeral, 1, designates a garment having a placket comprising an underlapping flap, 2,. and an overlapping flap, 3, which latter is provided at its inner side with a hook member, 4, of a fastener. The underlapping flap, 2, of the garment has on its outer surface an eye-member, 5, which in the present instance has a crossbar, 6, with lateral portions, 7-, and perforated ends, 8, by means of which latter the said member may be attached to the garment. The cross-bar, 6, carries a bail, 9, which has a narrow loop-end, 10, and ends,

11, which pivotally engage the cross-bar.

The ends of this bail are preferably attached to the crossbar by providing the latter with notch or reduced portions, 12, about which the ends of the bail are coiled loosely. This construction enables the bail to be swung from one side to the other of the cross bar so that when in one position its loop-end, 10, may project beyond the edge, 13, of the overlapping flap, 3, and when in the other position (see broken lines Fig. 1) said bail may be entirely concealed by said overlapping flap, all for a purpose presently to be explained.

It will be noted by reference to Fig. 1, that the width of bail at the attached ends is such that the hook-member, 4, on the flap, 3, may readily engage the cross-bar between said ends.

In Fig. 2, the garment is shown with its flaps lapped and secured and with the bail, 9, projecting. This figure also discloses the belt, 14, having a buckle, 15, attached to one end which buckle has an ordinary movable or pivoted tongue, 16. The belt also has the usual keeper strap, 17, whose function is to receive and retain the free end of the belt strap after the latter has been engaged by the buckle tongue.

One object of the present invention is to provide an improved device for engaging the tongue of the buckle to hold the latter and the belt against vertical movement. To do this the loop-end, 10, of the bail is projected from beneath the overlapping flap, 3, as in Fig. 2, and the tongue, 16, is passed through the hail from the under to the outer side and projected over the edge, 13, of said flap and finally through a perforation, 18, in the free end of the strap. After the strapend has thus been engaged by the tongue, 16, it will be carried forward over the tongue and bail and inserted through the keeper, 17 in which position it will entirely conceal the bail.

If it is desired to wear the garment without a belt, the bail will simply be swung on the bar, 6, so that its loop-end, 10, will project toward the edge of the underlapping flap, 2, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 1 where it may be entirely concealed by the overlapping flap of the garment.

It will be understood from the foregoing explanation that as the buckle tongue passes through the loop-end of the pivoted hail the latter will prevent the buckle from slipping up or down while on the person.

Having thus described our invention what placket and its intermediate portion arched and free so as to be engaged by a hook on the inner surface of the overlapping flap of said placket said bar carrying a bail whose two ends are pivotally attached to the arched bar and Whose intermediate portion extends laterally from the arched bar and converges into a narrow loop-end,the attached ends of the bail being spaced apart on the arched bar to permit the hook on the overlapping flap of the placket to pass between them to engage the arched bar between said bail ends.

In. testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC COBLENS ISAACS. ALBERT H. LIKES.

Vitnesses as to Isaac Coblens Isaacs:

GUS GOODMAN, EUGENE C. PYLE.

lVitnesses as to Albert H. Likes: CHARLES E. MANN, J r.,

G. FERDINAND Voor.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Batents, Washington, D. C. 

